About the Author

Sheila Delany is Professor of English Emerita at Simon Fraser University. Her many books, articles, essays, and reviews helped open up Anglophone medieval studies, especially in Chaucer, to modern critical theory, gender-oriented work, and class-based historicism.

Reviews

""Sheila Delany is forthright, passionate, and outspoken on the subject of women and their oppression. . . . The clarity of her judgment, the brilliance of her research, and the fairness of mind that prevents her from being doctrinaire cannot be faulted."" --Booklist